This week's tip comes from the Educause Quarterly, and offers tips and suggestions for successfully integrating technology into your classes. While our web-based labs may mean that we're more "wired" than some other classes on campus, the author has some good ideas on "chunking" classes and "thinking small" to get students engaged with both technology and your lesson:

Think Small! A Beginner's Guide to Using Technology to Promote Learning

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This week's tip addresses dealing with disruptive behavior in the classroom. You can find an MTI tip on this topic here.

The New York Times recently wrote on this topic, as well (specifically, teaching vs. technology disruptions). To see what they had to say, click here.

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By now most of you are probably aware that the 2007 NSSE Annual Report has been released (access it online at http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm). As usual, it contains interesting data and suggestions for how to improve the undergraduate educational experience.

In relation to the report, it's worth highlighting an article (below) from the July/August 2007 edition of C&RL News. The 2006 NSSE survey included a number of special, one-time items related to information literacy, and Gratch-Lindauer's article discusses findings from those items.

Information literacy-related student behaviors: Results from the NSSE items
C&RL News, July/August 2007, 68(7)
Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2007/julyaugust07/infolitstudent.cfm

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